[JURIST] Saddam Hussein defense lawyer Curtis Doebbler, one of the two Americans on Hussein's Dujail trial team, has condemned the ousted Iraqi president's execution [JURIST report] in a statement sent to JURIST only minutes after his client was hanged in Baghdad at dawn Saturday local time:The execution of Iraqi President
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[JURIST] Iraqi television is reporting that Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] has been executed. The hanging, reported by US-operated al-Hurra TV as having taken place around 6 AM Saturday local time (10 PM Friday ET), fulfills the death sentence handed down by the Iraqi High Tribunal last month [JURIST report]
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[JURIST] A US federal judge has rejected an eleventh-hour bid by lawyers for Saddam Hussein seeking a direct stay of execution. US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued a 6-page ruling [text] late Friday evening following a telephone conference with lawyers in the wake of court papers filed around 1 PM
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[JURIST] Iraqi officials have said that final preparations are underway for the execution by hanging of Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] before 6 AM local Baghdad time (10 PM Friday ET). Observers eligible to witness the execution have been told to be in attendance by 5:30 AM local time and
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[JURIST] A three-judge panel of the US DC Circuit Court of Appeals Friday rejected [order, PDF] an amicus brief [text, PDF] filed [JURIST report] by seven retired judges who argued that portions of the new Military Commissions Act [JURIST news archive] affecting Guantanamo detainees were unconstitutional on the grounds that
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[JURIST] An Iraqi judge on the appeals bench of the Iraqi High Tribunal [official website] that earlier this week rejected [ruling in Arabic, PDF] Saddam Hussein's appeal [appeal brief, in English] of his November death sentence [JURIST report] for crimes against humanity said Friday that Hussein would be executed "today
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[JURIST] State-run television in Iran [JURIST news archive] has reported that Iranian Minister of Justice Jamal Karimi-Rad [Wikipedia profile] has died in a car accident [IRNA report]. While details have been sparse, it is believed that Karimi-Rads son was driving [BBC report] when their car collided with a truck as
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[JURIST] The top Iraqi defense lawyer for Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] said Friday that US authorities have asked the defense team to pick up Hussein's personal belongings in preparation for a reportedly-imminent transfer [JURIST report] of the ousted Iraqi president to Iraqi officials for execution. Khalil al-Dulaimi told AP,
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[JURIST] The State of California has decided not to appeal a December 21st decision [text, PDF] of the California 1st District Court of Appeal [official website] restoring voting rights [JURIST news archive] to approximately 100,000 inmates serving a year or less for felony convictions in local jails. The case, filed
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[JURIST] The US Department of Justice [official website] reported Thursday that incidents of intimate partner violence [CDC backgrounder] in the United States have declined in recent years [press release]. The study was conducted by the DOJ Bureau of Justice Statistics [official website], and analyzed crime rates [JURIST news archive] from
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[JURIST] Somalia Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Ghedi [BBC profile] announced Thursday that Somalias parliament will declare 3 months of martial law starting Saturday, in the hope of reestablishing order following the fleeing from Mogadishu of militias seeking to establish Islamic law in the country [JURIST report] after troops from neighboring
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